Julian Bond, chairman of the board of the NAACP, will deliver the Frederick Douglass Distinguished Lecture at DePaul University on “Race, Citizenship and Human Rights in the New Millennium” Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Vincent dePaul Church, 1010 W. Webster Ave.

Bond is a veteran of the civil rights movement, having organized Atlanta’s first student sit-in and anti-segregation movement while a student at Morehouse College in 1960. A founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Bond served as SNCC’s communications director and was active in protests and voter registration campaigns throughout the south. Elected in 1965 to the Georgia House of Representatives, Bond served more than 20 years as a state legislator.

As chairman of the NAACP board, Bond heads the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the country. He is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the recipient of more than 20 honorary degrees.

Bond’s appearance at the university marks the fourth annual lecture named for Frederick Douglass, a former slave, orator and abolitionist. The lecture is sponsored by the DePaul Center for Culture and History of Black Diaspora. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information about the lecture and other events sponsored by the center, call 773/325-7510 or visit the center’s Web site at http://www.depaul.edu/~diaspora.